著者:Susan E. Cahan
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2016年01月28日
In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan uncovers the moment when the civil rights movement reached New York City's elite art galleries. Focusing on three controversial exhibitions that integrated Afr……続きを見る
The Magic of Mariachi / La Magia del Mariachi is a fascinating book that combines two disciplines – art and poetry – creating a treasure of lyrical poetry and strikingly beautiful paintings of maria……続きを見る
Salvador Abascal Infante (1910-2000) es uno de esos personajes de la historia de México frente a los que, una vez descubiertos, es imposible la indiferencia. El recuerdo de su figura, y de todo lo q……続きを見る
The widespread presence of jazz and blues in African American visual art has long been overlooked. The Hearing Eye makes the case for recognizing the music's importance, both as formal template and ……続きを見る
In SoulStirrers, H. Ike Okafor-Newsum describes the birth and development of an artistic movement in Cincinnati, Ohio, identified with the Neo-Ancestral impulse. The Neo-Ancestral impulse emerges as……続きを見る
著者:Flannery Burke
出版社: University Press of Kansas
発売日: 2016年01月22日
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Award
They all came to Taos: Georgia O'Keefe, D. H. Lawrence, Carl Van Vechten, and other expatriates of New York City. Fleeing urban ugliness, they moved west between 1917 a……続きを見る
"Once I started this incomparable story, I couldn't put it down, and I cannot get it out of my mindーnor will I ever. The message of what can be accomplished by training through affection and joy wi……続きを見る
Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
“You’ve read the books, now see the land. . . . It’s like having Tony Hillerman still with……続きを見る
First student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Sam Kashner tells with humor and grace his life with the Beats. But the best story is Kashner himself -- the coming-of-age of a young……続きを見る
All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros.
In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explo……続きを見る
Oscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith: a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story is nearly forgotten today. Now, in a feat of historical inv……続きを見る
“Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who’s been influential for a whole generation of Rock ’n’ Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!”
ーSir Paul McCartney
Does the Noise in ……続きを見る
Both a great American adventure and a rare entry into asheltered world, Under the Big Top describes one man's pursuit of every child's fantasy: running away to join the circus. Bruce Feiler's unforg……続きを見る
During the first half of the twentieth centuryーdecades of war and revolution in Europeーan "intellectual migration" relocated thousands of artists and thinkers to the United States, including some ……続きを見る
著者:Herbert P Bix
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2009年10月13日
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-y……続きを見る
In the early 1960s, Richard Avedon was commissioned by Harper's Bazaar to create Observations, a column that consisted of a series of nine photographic essays. The subject of the first essay was Joh……続きを見る
[Alanna] Nash belongs in the pantheon of great music writers, and [Baby, Let’s Play House] is a fascinating study.” ーRosanne Cash
Just in time for Elvis Presley’s would-be 75th birthday comes a new……続きを見る
This first-ever book of its kind, Designing for the Greater Good, features hundreds of illustrated examples of the best nonprofit and cause-related design worldwide, plus 24 inspiring case studies a……続きを見る
“A remarkable, eye-opening biography . . . McGilligan’s Orson is a Welles for a new generation, [a portrait] in tune with Patti Smith’s Just Kids.”ーA. S. Hamrah, Bookforum
No American artist or ent……続きを見る
"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colle……続きを見る
After the sexual revolution came the sexual explosion
The six years between 1968 and 1973 saw more sexual taboos challenged than ever before. Film, literature, and theater simultaneously broke throu……続きを見る
Actress and comic Lisa Ann Walter offers a hilarious, star-studded collection of essays encouraging women to laugh at what they can't change, enjoy a guilty pleasure or two, and finally accept the l……続きを見る
Kawaii is a word that originated in 1970s Japan when schoolgirls adopted the term to describe everything cute. This word is now understood world-wide and identifies a particular trend of visual aest……続きを見る
The creator of CSIdelves into the mysteries of his father’s tragic death and his own unlikelyrise in Hollywood using the very techniques he has honed by working on his hitshows, CSI, CSI: Miami,and ……続きを見る
In this inspiring memoir, internationally beloved actress Jane Seymour shows how she has learned to embrace and learn from the many changes in her life
Now fifty, Jane Seymour––the eternally beautif……続きを見る
As unconventional a biography as Dennis Hopper was a man, Hopper: A Journey into the American Dream by Tom Folsom charts his roller coaster life and career through the lens of the landscape of Ameri……続きを見る
著者:Julia Bryan-Wilson
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2011年11月02日
In the heady and hallucinogenic days of the 1960s and ’70s, a diverse range of artists and creative individuals based in the American Westーfrom the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains and the Sout……続きを見る
著者:Anne Anlin Cheng
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
Through the figure of Josephine Baker, Second Skin tells the story of an unexpected yet enduring intimacy between the invention of a modernist style and the theatricalization of black skin at the tu……続きを見る